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As a follow up, the league is already backtracking:
League will allows players into facilities, but possibly not weight rooms | ProFootballTalk
The lockout is over. The owners have lost the round. From this early positioning of the owners, it looks as if it's going to be about achieving minimal compliance until the outcome of the appeal regarding the stay.
Hard to know what is in the actual contracts but it seems to me that keeping players from the weight and film rooms would be non-compliant in that they are areas vital to the players performances and an expected part of the agreement between player and team.
The NFL had and still has another hurdle to clear if the stay is granted, as they would be drafting players and claiming their rights but not willing to offer contracts to them, and if anything that would once again reinforce the player's anti-trust suit in that such conduct is only permisable with agreement with the player's as a whole. As a plaintiff Von Miller would have an excellent case that his rights are being infringed upon when a team claims the exclusive right to him but won't offer a contract.